The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-02-26
LEGISLATION Needed

| Helena Herald: instead OF a law
Furnishing herders for abandoning their
tlocks and herds to save their own lives.
we think it would be more to point
to prevent by legislative means, if
nothing else is available, any person or
corporation from keeping more stock
than could be provided with food and
shelter during severe storms. Self-in-
terest ought to and perhaps will he mo-
tive enough to secure this end, but if
not, then legislation should be had to
prevent it. Besides being desperate
risk and wanton waste of property. it
is extreme cruelty to dumb beasts, which
have right to appeal for protection
against their improvident owners. 1t
may involve additional labor and ex-
pense in putting up hay, grain and sheds,
but the sacrifices Of this winter will
prove that it will pay as an investment
and make stock raising a safe, steady
and legitimate business. Wemay never
again have as hard a season as this, but
a certain reserve must be carried from
year to year as security against drouth.
DeMores Latest Scheme
The New York Mail and Express
says: \ big fight is at hand, and the
prize is the meat supply Of New York.
Three opposing armies have been strug-
Cling and planning for the past year
against each other. Each possesses
ammunition to the amount of $9OOOO,-
600. Skirmishes have been fought dur
ing the past few months by bull.
During the week just past, however, a
scheme has been unearthed, unpar-
alleled in the history of the clever. The
National Consumers Meat company is
it author, and has succeeded in sHrpfis-
Ing it's foes, the Chicago dressed beef me
and city slaughterers. This is the
scheme: The sale of Chicago dressed
beef and city slaughtered carcasses is
about even in New York. Last March
the National Consumers Meat company
opened five retail stores in this city.
1t shipped dressed carcasses from the
Montana range country, and thus be-
came rival of not only the city slaugh-
terers and Chicago dressed men, but also
of the retail butchers. With it's forces
and it's capital multiplied
it will make vigorous and diplomatic
attack upon the city slaughters and
Chicago men. Thus it proposes to win
the retail butchers to it's side by pur-
chasing every shop in New York for
cash or by making the proprietor
stockholder in the company and retain
ing him as manager of the business
transferred. The company will, of
course, supply all of these stores with
it's own meat and owning every retail
in the city, there will be
no outlay for any other stock. Thus
The total abolition of city slaughtering
and of all shipments of Chicago dressed
oeef to New York. Marquis de Mores,
who is the general of CONSUMERS forces"
s very confident of success, though re-
uctant at present to disclose the details.
Our plan" he said yesterday, "is not to
'ell at wholesale, but to retail direct to
he consumer. Our company is to be
merged into another syndicate, and hav-
ng abundant capital, we propose to
,uy up, every retail butcher store in the
'ity either for cash or stock, and if our
are not successful, we will
'pen 800 or 400 independent retail shops.
We desire first to give the retail butcher
chance to dispose of his business.
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